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Learn how others made the change to Romer Labs at www.romerlabs.com/en/change PUBLISHER Lisa Dionne Lento, [email protected] SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER Bob Zander, [email protected] From The Editors PROFESSIONAL EDITOR Marian Zboraj, [email protected] DESIGN Maria Ender, [email protected] PRODUCTION Claudia Vogel, [email protected] Jörg Stenger, [email protected] nswers and inspiration Elli Palzer, [email protected] can come from any- CO-INDUSTRY EDITOR Purnendu C. Vasavada, PhD, where or from anyone. 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The “why” ushered in an age of antibiotics. Another inspiration comes from my UC Davis professor, Dr. Marty Miller. A food processor asked him to determine why inter- Editorial Advisory Panel mittent spoilage was occurring in its canned- and glass-packed Ellen Bradley, CFS Vijay K. Juneja, PhD products. Dr. Miller spent days in the plant watching operations Principal Food Scientist, Lead Scientist, River City Food Group LLC Predictive Microbiology for Food Safety, and reviewing records. He came up with USDA-Agricultural Research Service nothing. He then decided to look at the John N. Butts, PhD Founder and President, Hasmukh Patel, PhD night shift. Again, nothing. FoodSafetyByDesign, LLC; VP of Research and Development, Advisor to CEO, Whitehall Specialties He ended up chatting with the night Land O’Frost shift janitor, a long-time employee. After Mary Ann Platt Cliff Coles President, Dr. Miller described the issue, the janitor President, CNS/FoodSafe and RQA, Inc. Clifford M. 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